Microsoft Will Give China
Access to Windows Code

By

Andrew Batson Dow Jones Newswires

Updated March 2, 2003 9:33 p.m. ET

BEIJING -- Microsoft Corp. will allow the Chinese government some access to the source code of its Windows operating system, which will enable the government to check the security of that software. It also said it would aid the software industry in the city of Beijing by training 1,200 software engineers and establishing a $2.2 million computer lab.

Chairman Bill Gates said Friday that the agreement to let China participate in the Government Security Program, the system by which Microsoft gives national governments access...